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Hi
Kim!
Sit back, close your eyes...and imagine, if you can, a tall skinny
guy dressed in a purple leotard. He's sitting on the floor
with both legs wrapped over his head. He's slowly chanting
"Ah-Ohmmm". The incense burns. Suddenly...A puff of smoke, and
you're on the first tee of your home course. You swing back.
Further than usual. There's no pain. Nor strain. You
pure it. The ball takes off. It keeps going -
like an Energizer battery. (and going)
Now...combine those two thoughts, and you've got Yoga For
Golfers. Well not exactly, because Yoga For Golfers
doesn't require you to contort your body like a rubber band, but
anyway, the latest sensation to hit golf in the U.S is now available
in Thailand and Asia through Golfthink.
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million...
Hope you enjoy this months read...
Kim
In This Edition...
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Here you can arrange accommodation, tee times, transfers, book a golf
lesson and even arrange for one of our team to take you shopping for golf
equipment.
This month a couple of Nike Janet Reno (Seriously
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Nike
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Driver
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prices.
This month we head up country to Khao-Yai and review Forest
Hills Country Club , one of many unheralded designs in the
Khao-Yai area. The Par 5 14th, Par 3 15th and Par 4th 16th are
one of favourite trio's of short holes in Thailand, especially if the 15th
green was half the size (it's a wedge for most players) and if they
shortened the 16th to make it driveable.
The clubhouse service is adequate, what one would expect from most
courses "up-country", but I think caddie training consists
of two (agonising) hours watching the video "The Legend of Baggar
Vance" on the Caddie Masters 29" Sony Trinitron TV. Overall though,
a very pleasant way to spend a day golfing, and reachable in about an hour
and fifteen minutes (if you don't talk golf, miss the sign and drive
20km's past it).
NOTE: Forest Hills was recently the host of the PriceWaterHouse Golf
League's monthly matches, where the Todd Hamilton-like Oreilly's team
continued their rampant form and maintained their position at the top of
the table. Unlike some other golfers (that grace the home page of
golfthink.com), their comments "We're close to putting it all together"
actually have come to fruition...
Bogey - To myself for
using this newsletter as a forum to whinge and complain about things
that don't go my way...
Birdie - Todd Hamilton for
hanging tough to win the Open and not becoming another Jean De Velde or
Brian Watts...
Bogey - To the course that I
know most of the staff at better than my alter ego, for demanding a
1,000 baht deposit for rental shoes. Come to think of it,
lets give them a birdie, I mean my USD$300 pair of
Footjoy Classics Dry Premier are 5 years old and
looking a bit shabby and I guess the word must have
gotten out that I secretly have a foot fetish and was getting
rather excited just thinking about taking home a $15 pair
of vinyl golf shoes worn by 297 other golfers in 40 degree
heat...
Birdie - The Bangkok
underground train, which is supposed to help increase the average
speed of cars in Bangkok (estimated at 5-6 km/hr)
Bogey - The Bangkok underground
train. For not having enough trains running. And they think
they'll get Bangkokians out of their BMW's and Mercedes to stand like a
Viagra erection amongst 18,986 other passengers...
Eagle - JW Marriott Phuket Resort and Spa for
making its debut on the prestigious "World's Best Hotels Awards - Asia"
2004 published by Travel & Leisure Magazine (USA) this
month. Go Lee!
Final Hole
Heroics
This month we come from a different angle and present to you:
The Honest Taxi
Drivers Guide To Good Golf Course Journeys:
(As Translated From
A Real Taxi Driver)
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Put away your nice
color map you printed off the Internet because to me, all maps just
look like drawings by your three year old daughter and I think
you're trying to barter this for the fare.
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If I get lost, stopping
and asking for directions, calling the golf course, or any other similar
action that you might find helpful and/or logical, is completely out of
the question. We can find the course by trial and error, even if
it means driving around for two hours, after which time, any course will
do. I mean, how different can they be?
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If I drop you off at Vinni's Jewelry, Electronics
& Designer Goods Bizarre, and you want to eventually make
it to your destination, it's quicker to go in and pretend you're
interested rather than threaten you're going to call the tourist
police
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It's 400 baht one way at
the very most for most courses in the Bangkok area. If I try to
bargain with you for a set price, run for it - faster than a Tom
Yum Kung.
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Whenever you hear me say "This way shortcut", kick back
and have a snooze because it'll be at least another hour before
we get to your destination
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Accelerating then braking every 1.36 seconds was on the taxi
drivers practical test. Your sarcastic comments won't make the
ride any smoother.
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Playing Thai music as loud as the radio will go, and
trying to dislodge last nights chicken feet noodles from my
throat then spitting out the door is the taxi drivers rendition
of "Welcome To My World"
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If I stop on the way and refuse to take you any further for
any reason, think Nike. (Just Do It)
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I'm picking my nose because someday, I'll go deep enough to
find gold and not have to work 16 hour shifts.
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